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question had been settled in favour of Portugal.
The complication was reported to Earl Russell in 1864 in despt 45 of July and Sept. 12 of that year.
I beg also to refer to My desp. No 9 of Jan. 29, 1870, to the Earl of Clarendon regarding the application of M. Medhunsh to act as Consul General of Portugal at Shanghae, which I declined to support.
The Chinese fort, as I have elsewhere reported, in 1865 were disposed to buy the Portuguese out, but this was strenuously opposed at Paris. The French Legation for some reason has always strongly objected to the reassertion of Chinese rights at Macao, and in 1866-67, M. de Bellonet, then Chargé d'affaires, though decided enemy of the disgraceful Coolie traffic of which Macao was...